An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
STIVED
Verb
stived
simple past tense and past participle of stive
Anagrams
• divest, divets
Source: Wiktionary
STIVE
Stive, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stived; p. pr. & vb. n. Stiving.] Etym: [Probably fr. F. estiver to compress, stow, L. stipare: cf. It. stivare, Sp. estivar. Cf. Stevedore, Stiff.]
Definition: To stuff; to crowd; to fill full; hence, to make hot and close; to render stifling. Sandys. His chamber was commonly stived with friends or suitors of one kind or other. Sir H. Wotton.
Stive, v. i.
Definition: To be stifled or suffocated.
Stive, n.
Definition: The floating dust in flour mills caused by the operation or grinding. De Colange.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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